Design a knowledge graph
Funded by the Big Ideas Accelerator, we are working to build an interdisciplinary community of practice for those interested in knowledge graphs to unleash their power for addressing wicked social problems.
Call for Papers: “AI and Digital Innovations for Voice and Vocal Music”
If you are interested in presenting at the symposium, please submit a 200-word abstract of your talk or creative presentation (in any format), along with a 100-word bio, to alexandra.huang@ed.ac.uk by 10 January 2025.
Digital education
These projects engage explicitly with educational marginalisation, that process of pushing a particular group or groups of people to the edge of the dominant regimes of power in local, regional, and international educational regimes, whether as an exclusion from resources and decision-making, or through prevailing discourse and policy.
Reviving the commons? A scoping review of urban and digital commoning
This report explores the contemporary revival of commoning practices in urban and digital contexts. The authors, James Henderson and Oliver Escobar, delve into the historical roots, current manifestations, and future potential of the commons as a paradigm for socioeconomic transformation, democratic innovation and sustainable community governance.
Creative Feedback: The Feats and Failures of Technology
Review of “Creative Feedback: The Feats and Failures of Technology” event, 10th May 2024 by Caterina Moruzzi
Leith Walk from the Data Civics Observatory
In this original short film our regular collaborators, brutalist architectural photographer Simon Phipps and independent researcher Darren Umney, take a birds eye view of Leith Walk from Google Earth Studio.
A processual exploration of Airbnb
If how we see a place is a product of where we stand and what tools we use to look, Airbnb is an intriguing case for the Data Civics Observatory. Addie McGowan’s doctoral research explores the processes of Airbnb and how they reconfigure our sense of place, both online and off.
Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage
What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage research? How can we get a better understanding of current priorities, concerns and hopes by imagining and collectively scrutinising possibilities for the future?
Decoding Hidden Heritages
This three-year UK–Ireland collaboration in digital humanities fuses deep, qualitative analysis with cutting-edge computational methods to decode, interpret and curate the hidden heritages of Irish and Scottish Gaelic traditional narrative.
Finding her name in the archive
This project aims to uncover gender bias in the way that Special Collections’ archives have historically been catalogued.
